Tapping screws form mating threads in materials they are driven into. There are two basic types: thread forming and thread cutting. The thread-forming screw displaced material around the pilot hole so ...

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Tool targeted at auto industry puts threads in aluminum and other soft metals. A few years ago, engineers and management at Emuge Corp., a leading maker of taps, drills, and other rotary tools, ...

Threadlock Precision, an operating platform that acquires and grows precision manufacturing companies, today announced the ...

I quickly calculate proper tap-drill diameters using this simple formula. Tap-drill diameter equals nominal diameter minus thread pitch. I quickly calculate proper tap-drill diameters using this ...

It’s doubtful that the early pioneers of CNC would have been able to imagine the range of the applications the technology would be used for. Once limited to cutting metal, CNC machines can now lance ...